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noun
Black book  n.  
1.
One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.
2.
A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.
3.
A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.
4.
A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III.
5.
A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.
6.
Any book which treats of necromancy.
7.
A book containing a black list.
8.
A book kept by a single man, containing a list of women whom he calls occasionally for a social date; usually used in the phrase little black book. (jocose)





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"Black book" Quotes from Famous Books



... navy, and does his duty by his country like a man, why, he shouldn't be passed over. Now look at me; I was on the books of the Catamaran, one of the old seventy-fours, in '96; I did my duty then and always; was never in the black book or laid up sick; was always rough and ready for any work that came to hand; and when I went into the Mudlark as lieutenant in year '9, little Bobby Howard had just joined the old Cat. as a young middy. ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope
... coarse garments for the poor. A great throne-like chair, with a canopy over it, a footstool, a desk and a small table before it, was vacant, and the work—a poor child's knitted cap—laid down; but an elderly minister, seated at a carved desk, had not discontinued reading from a great black book, and did not even cease while the strangers crossed the room, merely making a slight inclination with his head, while the ladies half rose, rustled a slight reverence with their black, gray or russet skirts, but hardly lifted their eyes. Eustacie thought the Louvre ...
— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge
... dream.... He was strolling by the border of the lake when a coot swam in and hailed him in English; and when he stopped to look the coot lifted an A.D.T. messenger-boy's cap and pleaded with him to sign his name in a little black book, promising that, if he did so, it would be free to doff its disguise and be Labertouche again. So Amber signed "Pink Satin" in the book and the coot stood up and said, "I'm not Labertouche at all, but Ram Nath, and Ram Nath is only another name ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance
... him a little. He saw Philip redden suddenly. He told him to fetch the Black Book. Philip put down his Caesar and went silently out. The Black Book was a sombre volume in which the names of boys were written with their misdeeds, and when a name was down three times it meant a caning. Philip went to the headmaster's house and knocked ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... and other papers," I said, bending down and taking them from the dead man's pocket. "He was an English officer, you see?" And I unfolded the little black book stamped with the ...
— The Man with the Clubfoot • Valentine Williams


Words linked to "Black book" :   listing, shitlist, blacklist, list


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